With the completion of Apple's new headquarters building and gradually put into use, we witnessed a "may be the world's best office building" was born.

It is said that in order to build the building, Jobs left over the $ 5 billion spent a clean. So, than the trenching, who can go beyond the apple? But if more than the design, creativity, domestic and foreign major technology companies office buildings are different.

For technology companies, office buildings have become an important part of the corporate image. A simple, but to be able to show the company's international status and corporate image; Second, the global technology giants are convinced that the mental workers, especially across the landlord, is not only a " Different people who have different knowledge structures meet to inspire. Therefore, they simulate street life, copy the function of the city, hoping to create a sense of community within the public space, thus stimulating the creativity of the staff; Third, a good office environment can also attract more talent Join.

Therefore, hunting cloud network inventory of internationally renowned technology companies built the headquarters building or under construction in the headquarters building, let us come together to see which company's building the most beautiful, the most rich, the most unique design it!

Domestic major technology companies headquarters building inventory

Tencent Shenzhen new headquarters building (to be completed)

Tencent Shenzhen New Headquarters Building (Binhai Building) is located in the Nanshan District Science and Technology Park, Houhai Avenue and the intersection of Binhai Road, Nanshan Center is the core of the lot. Covers an area of ​​18650 square meters, construction area of ​​about 350,000 square meters, the headquarters of the new building total cost of 600 million US dollars, can make six water cube. Has been basically completed, is expected to have more than 10,000 Tencent headquarters staff moved into office.

Unlike other sites in the suburbs of technology companies, Tencent has no vast land, can only choose & ldquo; up & rdquo ;. The Marina Building consists of a 248-meter-high 50-storey South Tower, a 19-meter-high 39-storey North Tower and three connections to the two towers and the interiors' shared facilities. Its main building animation games, mobile Internet and search center and other facilities, will become Tencent after the completion of animation games and mobile Internet R & D base.

WeChat headquarters building design exposure: the proposed 39-storey building height of 207 meters

Tencent Shenzhen new headquarters building is nearing completion, and Tencent Guangzhou headquarters building design has finally appeared, according to media reports, Tencent Guangzhou headquarters building Pazhou block planning program has been in Guangzhou City, the National Defense Commission website before the announcement, building planning and construction 39 layers, up to 207 meters, with a large platform floating in the air.

According to the renderings, the building is located on the 14th, 23th, 32nd and 38th floors. Partial projection is beyond the red line of the site. The functional space on the 7th, 14th, 23th, 32nd and 38th floor Line, the total calculation of the volume rate of construction area in line with planning and design requirements.

It is reported that Tencent plans to build this building into a WeChat headquarters building, planning construction area of ​​about 214,000 square meters, a lobby, two large platform, a layer of art gallery and a layer of overhead layer will be open to the outside world. The public from the south of the square, into the second floor of Tencent building platform, can have been strolling to the river.

In addition, Tencent Guangzhou Building (WeChat headquarters building), including the Pazhou A District AH040207, AH040226 two plots, from the exposure of the design point of view, two north and south will be built two buildings, including 39 South Building, 207 meters high ; North Tower 8, 51.7 meters high.

It is worth mentioning that, in addition to Tencent, the other Internet companies such as Alibaba, only goods will, the United States, millet will also be in Pazhou to build, building the headquarters building.

Alibaba headquarters building (Xixi Park four is expected to be completed in 2019)

Four effect map

March 20 this year, the US architectural design company NBBJ announced the successful bidder Alibaba new headquarters project design, it is following Taobao City, Alipay headquarters and other integrated office building after the Alibaba Park four projects, address in the Alibaba Xixi Park Phase I Phase II of the opposite, the scale of more than a period of the second phase of the three, the total area: 132,000 square meters, is expected to be completed in 2019 completed.

Overall, Alibaba's headquarters offers a campus layout of 150,000 square meters of flexible, open office space based on connectivity, clarity and communication. Office space is designed to be a positive green environment, the purpose is to promote the whole area of ​​informal, innovative interactive communication. Staff centers, indoor and outdoor streets, bridges, rooftop terraces, and well-appointed stop-ups, all designed to the park to create a collaborative atmosphere.

The entire Alibaba Park, the most striking is the Chinese characteristics of ice glass window pattern external screen. Because the city of Hangzhou, the environment is surrounded by gardens, surrounded by greenery, ice glass window pattern is intended to show the environmental characteristics.

Alipay & ldquo; font office building (completed)

As early as 2012, NBBJ designed Alibaba for Alipay headquarters building, located in Hangzhou Xixi Road Zhejiang University Technology Park, the new Alipay Zhejiang headquarters building is the first self-built work park, the entire project covers an area of ​​48.9 acres, the ground floor area More than 80,000 square meters, can accommodate about 8,000 people office.

Alipay building effect map

Alipay building overlooking the renderings

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Baidu headquarters building (already put into use)

Baidu is headquartered in Haidian District, Beijing on the ground 10 Street, the building for the five floors on the 7th floor, underground 2-story office building; another one on the ground floor, underground 2-story lecture hall; construction area of ​​up to 300,000 square meters , After 2012, Baidu is located in Shenzhen, Beijing, the new office building, the total cost of more than 6 billion yuan.

Baidu headquarters building overlooking the map

Baidu headquarters building appearance

Sina headquarters new building (already put into use)

Sina new headquarters building is located in Beijing on the Zhongguancun Software Park 2, covering 2.9 hectares, construction area of ​​about 132,200 square meters, the entire building on the ground 6, 3 underground, cost about 1.5 billion yuan, can accommodate 5,000 people at the same time Use, in May this year began to put into use.

Sina building design and construction reflects the green low-carbon and energy saving and environmental protection concept, the building has tailored PM2.5 filter and carbon dioxide sensor linkage fresh air system, equipped with air filtration, UV disinfection, air volume and other automatic adjustment function.

At the same time, Sina building also built rainwater recovery system and solar hot water system, improve the utilization of resources. Glass curtain wall with the design of the blinds, taking into account the needs of environmental protection and energy saving, effectively reduce the sun on the indoor direct, and reduce the indoor air conditioning energy consumption.

Because of its unique appearance, many netizens dubbed Sina building shape like "aunt towel & rdquo ;. It is understood that the shape of Sina building design to "and" for the concept of plane, combined with two chambers to create a classic courtyard-style research room around the spatial pattern. In addition, the & quot; & & quot; & quot; & quot; symbol contains the implied meaning of the infinite connection of information, and the interpretation of Sina's corporate culture and corporate genes.

Jingdong headquarters building (already put into use)

Jingdong New Headquarters Building is an independent office building built by Jingdong Group. It is located in Yizhuang Economic Development Zone, Beijing. The total area is about 280,000 square meters. The building height is 100 meters. It consists of three 80-100 meters high towers. connection. August 16, 2015, Jingdong new headquarters building was officially opened.

Jingdong new headquarters building by the three giant office building connected, far from the three high-rise buildings standing next to each other, constitute a huge "chain" word shape. And the shape of the chain not only reflects the Jingdong rich industrial ecology, but also with the Jingdong smart, humanities, green innovation concept complement each other, meaning Jingdong to build a rich product category, the pattern of accurate value chain of innovation.

In addition to the new architectural concept, Jingdong new headquarters building interior design reflects the Jingdong corporate culture and humanistic care. Not only simple and neat, the theme of a variety of social office environment, conference rooms, and the building from the staff experience, a reasonable introduction of reading room, gym, maternal room, vent room and many other humane and outdoor scene of the region, Breaking the traditional office space of the conventional model for the staff to provide a one-stop service, but also more fit Jingdong simple and happy working philosophy.

Foreign major technology companies headquarters building inventory

Apple's "Spacecraft" has been put into use at the headquarters building Apple Park (already put into use)

From the picture point of view, Apple's new headquarters building Apple Park shape resembles a spacecraft, large enough to accommodate 13,000 employees. It includes a 260,128-square-meter office, R & D headquarters, an auditorium of 1,000 people, a 27,870-square-meter lab and a power station. It is Jobs's legacy, devoted a lot of energy, which in the "Jobs" has been described, Steve Jobs has personally involved in the design and promotion.

Today, this building has been completed and began to gradually put into use. Apple Park gives the first impression is big, with Steve Jobs's words, that is the kind of spacecraft in the earth landing feeling. With the experience of the visitors who visited the new park, feeling like the Jurassic Park.

It is understood that Apple Park in the design of full consideration of the sustainability of the environment, based on the existing landscape increased by 350% of the plant area. Most of the parking lot has been transferred to the ground, save the space to plant 6,000 native trees and laying the pedestrian trail. A large number of green plants are planted in a central courtyard surrounded by round buildings to provide a comfortable working environment for Apple employees and to introduce outdoor natural elements into the interior.

However, good-looking good-looking, after all, depends on the staff's real office experience. Just this week, some foreign media reports that some Apple employees are not satisfied with the open campus office design, the new Apple Park provides a large area of ​​open office space, which placed a long desk, for a large number of procedures Employees, engineers and other employees of the collective use, and before Apple's most employees have their own office. If they do not like the workspace of the Apple Park, it is likely to leave the company after the product is released.

Menlo Park, California, the new headquarters of the MPK 20, the construction area of ​​430,000 square feet, covering more than 22 acres, almost seven American football field so much. The overall use of transparent glass decoration style, very modern. Building height: about 21.3 meters Area: about 89,000 square meters Top green area: about 36,000 square meters, estimated cost: 5 billion US dollars.

Facebook continues to maintain an open work environment, it is not like we imagine the kind of big company grand style high-rise buildings, MPK20 is a row of ordinary, a little short house, or a large warehouse, can accommodate 2,800 employees office The

Office area, full of sofa, whiteboard, employees can discuss at any time, learn from ideas and ideas, this is the so-called Facebook engineer culture. Graffiti can also be seen everywhere, Facebook invited dozens of artists to paint, is said to inspire engineers to inspire.

Its underground is a parking lot, the roof is a 9 acre green space, more like a large park, also won the "green building" certification.

The building itself is very simple and not fancy. It also conforms to Zuckerberg's hope that the building is not open to the mind, focusing on the concept of cost, so the final building presents like a simple, open large warehouse, which reflects the corporate culture. However, there are media that the new headquarters building looks like a "huge fish tank", all the internal floor, all employees of the activities at a glance.

Amazon Star New Headquarters Building (under construction)

The new headquarters of the Amazon, surrounded by three tall buildings

The new headquarters building in Seattle is located on the Seventh Avenue in Seattle. The new headquarters consists of three huge glass hemispheres, surrounded by three high-rise buildings, which are expected to be operational in 2018.

Under construction in the Amazon headquarters of the sphere building section

Among them, each glass hemisphere 100 feet high (about 30 meters), and built a floating corridor, general office and conference room. More importantly, Amazon wants to plant more than 3,000 different plants in it and build it into a huge greenhouse.

Image copyright: NBBJ

It is reported that the real significance of Amazon planet "ralph lauren" is that Amazon wants to use the natural landscape within the building to motivate employees. They will be open in early 2018, the Amazon planet will be filled with a variety of worthy of the collection of greenhouse plants, Amazon employees can be in the ground from the 3-storey crown under the stroll, in the vines for the wall of the room And colleagues meet.

Google tent new headquarters building (expected to be completed in 2019)

In February, when Google's new headquarters building was about to be completed, Google announced a new headquarters in the eastern part of Charleston's Mountain View. According to Google's proposal to the local government, the new headquarters covers an area of ​​595,000 square feet (about 55,277 square meters), a height of 110 feet. Started in April this year, is expected to be completed by the end of 2019.

Google New Headquarters Mountain View City renderings

Google's new headquarters building is the first attempt by the technology giant to design and build a building, the official name of the building is Charleston East.

From the appearance point of view, its new headquarters building looks like a tent-style roof, so many friends call it "tents" at the same time, Google will let "green" throughout the project, in addition to the Solar integration into the roof outside the designer also expect such a roof design can play a role in collecting rain.

Samsung Semiconductor New Headquarters Building (already in use)

The Samsung Semiconductor and Development Research Center, located in San Jose, Calif., Was completed in July 2015. The park is located in the center of San Jose, California, covering an area of ​​1.1 million square feet (about 102,000 square meters) and a construction cost of $ 300 million, Is Samsung's R & D and sales center in the United States.

Samsung Semiconductor's new headquarters design concept, abandoned a lot of Silicon Valley technology company "parked first" style, replaced by people-oriented. The main building is similar to a giant glass donut, standing on a floor of the staff can easily see his colleagues up and down the floor. This design is designed to encourage employees to improvise controversy, which collide with innovative sparks, and then into it into a meaningful innovative products.

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